Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux

On Thu, 20 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:51:03 +0100, D wrote:
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Interesting! Line numbering is one of those things I like to have
enabled by default. I think my most common tricks are search n' replace
s///g, working with buffers, !! for pulling in stuff from the terminal,
dt to delete to, well, too many to mention. And many have almost become
automatic.

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Buffers are one of the selling points for me. The Brief editor had them
back in the DOS days before Borland bought it and killed it. I never could
figure out why the Visual Studio editor was so lame in that regard. I
haven't used Studio enough lately to bother but VS Code has a very nice
Vim extension.   "*  to interact with the clipboard is one I use often.
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Recording key sequences to a named register os handy too.
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Ah yes... macros, of course! I use those for smaller operations reformating text or cut n' paste according to some simple pattern. A big leap in vimology was when I moved from tabs to buffers. After that, tabs seemed like it was for nerds!